In October, guest professor Gonzalo Lizarralde visited to teach the seminar “Unnatural Disasters – Controversies in Low-Cost Housing and Post-Disaster Reconstruction”. During the seminar, our students explored the connections between social injustices,…
This week we welcome our new students for the 2019-20 term. Our new class, as all of our students, have very diverse backgrounds and come from many different countries. As…
During his last workshop for our master program, we sat down with our guest professor Nabeel Hamdi, participatory planning pioneer and professor at Oxford Brookes University, for a quick interview…
We interviewed the director of Columbia University GSAPP’s Latin Lab, Clara Irazabal, during her two two-week workshop “Learning from Latin American Cities: Planning and Urbanization” with our students. The Caracas-born…
Next week our program welcomes back Oxford Brookes professor Nabeel Hamdi as a member of our visiting faculty to teach this year’s final workshop before our students begin work on…
Our faculty member Kathrin Golda-Pongratz’s recently published Landscapes of Pressure is a finalist in this year’s FAD Awards in the Critical Thinking category. Based on the conviction that contemporary politics…
Listen to Camillo Boano talk about his recent workshop with our students, in which he emphasized the importance of understanding critical theory in transforming and improving the development practice. Throughout…
Professor Nabeel Hamdi has joined us again this year for another workshop with our students to talk about participative design and placemaking within the practice of development. We wanted to…
On Friday, 14th of November at 10am we welcome scholar and urban development expert Mona Khechen for an open lecture titled Urban Heritage between Revival and Destruction: Beirut. Aleppo. Kabul….
Today marks the end of our newly launched Humanitarian Shelter & Settlements workshop in partnership with and certified by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Society (IFRC)….
